Apparatus for spinning cotton, &amp;c.



No. 684,7l4.

- Patented Oct. l5, l90l.

W. A. PHILLEPS. APPARATUS FOR SPINNING CUTTDM, Kw.

(Application filed Feb. 21, 1901.)

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No. 684,7l4. Patented Oct. I5, 190i.

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APPARATUS FOR SPINNING COTTON, 8w.

(Applicaifion filed. Feb. 21, 1901.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

No. 684,7I4. Patented Oct. l5, l90l. W. A. PHILLIPS.

APPARATUS FOR SPINNING COTTON, 8w.

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WILLIAM ALFRED PHILLIPS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW CENTURYFINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF ADELPIII, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR SPlNNlNG COTTON, 8L0,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,714, dated October15, 1901. Application filed February 21 1901. Serial No. 48 355, (Nomodel.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWVILLIAM ALFRED PHIL- LIPS, a citizen of England,residing at 12 Euston Buildings, Euston Square, London, England, haveinvented a certain new and useful Apparatus for Spinning Cotton, 860.,(for which I have applied for a patent in Great Britain, dated July 25,1900, No. 13,402,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for spinning cotton and otherfibers by means of a spinning instrument or spinner of a novel kindoperating on a novel principle. In order that this may be betterunderstood, I shall describe a spinning-machine in which a number ofthese spinners with appropriate feed and draw rollers and bobbins arearranged in a row and worked through suitable driving-gear.

Figure 1 is a transverse section of the machine. Fig. 2 is a part plan,and Fig. 3 is a part front elevation, at one end of the machine. Fig. Ais an elevation of one of the spinners with its draw-rollers andsupportingrails shown in section. Fig. 5 is an elevation, and Fig. 6 isa plan, showing two of the row of spinners. Fig. '7 is a verticalsection of the spinner and its supporting-tube. Fig. 8 shows an enlargedside elevation of the spinner with the upper part separate from thelower part. Fig. 9 is a plan of the upper part of the spinner lookingfrom below. Figs. 10, 11, and 12 represent an elevation and sections ofthe head, showing the action.

The spinner itself comprises a tube a, the lower end of which isconnected by a flexible pipe I) to avessel, in which a partial vacuum ismaintained by an air pump. The tube has on it a driving-pulley c and isjournaled in suitable bearings in rails 61 c. On the top of the tube isa hollow head, into which air is drawn through a number of smallapertures or slits f, which terminate against a projecting shoulder gand are situated just under an annular rib, through which there is a vertical slit h near the termination of the slits. Behind the spinner areseveral pairs of feed and draw rollers j, which are loaded and driven atsuitable speeds, as in an ordinary spinning frame, and toward one sideof the spinner, between it and the nearest pair of rollers, is mounted aguide-pulley 70 on a spindle having a driving-pulley Z. A number ofspinners are mounted in a row and have their pulleys c driven byseparate bands from a cylinder m, while the pulleys Z are driven by acontinuous band pressed against them by intermediate guide-pulleys, theband passing over guide-pulleys n from a pulley 0 on a shaft 19. Thisshaft 19 is driven by worm and bevel gear g from the shaft of thecylinder m, and it has on it a pulley 1, which by means of bands drivesthe pulleys on the spindles of bobbins s, and has also on it cams whichmove up and down the traversing guideeyes t.

Cotton or other rovings of fiber taken from the tubes a over aguide-roller w are passed through between the rollers j and led on theone side of each of the guide-pulleys 70 up to the rapidly-revolvingspinners, to which the end fibers of the roving are drawn by the suctionthrough the slits g. Threads being once started and led through theslits h, through stationary guide eyes i) above the spinners, andthrough the traversing guideeyes 25 to the bobbins s, which arerevolving, threads are continuously spun from the ends of the rovingsand are wound on the bobbins e.

The operation of the spinners is as follows: When the upper part of thespinner is placed upon the lower part, with the slit hin line with theright edge or shoulder of the projection g on the lower part, the upperpart is held in that position by the pressure of the atmosphere, therebeing a vacuum within the spinner; but it might have a pin entering ahole in the lower part to prevent it from turn ing. A number of fibersat the end of the roving are caused by the outer air rushing through theserrations f to press against these serrations, and then the operatordraws a thread X from the bobbin and introduces it into the slit 71 overthe fibers lying there, this thread ending at the lower side of theprojection 9. 011 now causing the spinner to re volve the fibers arewound on the thread and drawn up with it through the slit, being spun asthey ascend, while fresh fibers are at every revolution of the spinnerdrawn onto it to join with and to become spun continuously with thefiber already spun, Figs. 11 and 12. Should the thread that is beingspun happen to break, it is only necessary to pull it down and insertits lower part into the slit h in order to have fresh fibers connectedto it and so as to continue the thread. Although the serrated part,which forms theinlets for air to the interior of the spinner, extendsover only a small part of the circumference, the fibers which had beendrawn onto the serrations having their front ends already connected tothe thread that is being spun are drawn far ther out from the roving asthe spinner revolves by being wound on the part which is not serratedand are finally drawn quite away to form part of the thread, fresh setsof fibers continually taking their place.

Although I have shown on the drawings only several spinners and theiraccessories, it is obvious that the frame and gearing may be extended toaccommodate any number that can be conveniently worked together.

Having thus described the nature of this feed and draw rollers, aguide-pulley, stationary and traversing guide-eyes, and a bobbin. 2. Inan apparatus for spinning cotton or other fibers, a tube, a headtherefor provided a with air-openings, a rib projecting from said headand provided with a slit, means connected to said tube for forming apartial vacuum, and rotating means for said tube.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM ALFRED PHILLIPS. Witnesses:

GEo. M. RUNKLIN, WM. HARRIS.

